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four or five feet. About the old landing-stage at Floshgate, 
Ullswater ; also by the R. Caldew at Holm-hill. 
Festuca pratensis. Meadow Fescue. 
Taken on the whole, one of our most valuable pasture products. 
Of larger growth than /. duriuscula. It is found in all our best 
meadows and pastures. It makes excellent hay; but as its 
nutritive and succulent properties are in perfection at the time of 
flowering, it ought never to be suffered to ripen its seeds. As it is 
somewhat late in flowering, there is less risk perhaps of this being 
done. It is more readily distinguished than many of its genus. 
A grand type of the Meadow Fescue grows near Town-end Bridge, 
in the parish of Watermillock. 
Bromus giganteus. Giant Brome-grass. 
A coarse species, natural only in woods and coppices. Not 
very frequently met with. Its seeds supply food for birds. Less 
common than the next mentioned. Near Yeathouse Station, on 
the W. side of the Railway. The variety known as ¢viflora occurs 
about Soulby, and in the hedgerows at the foot of Dunmallet, 
Ullswater ; also by the R. Ehen, below Salter Hall. 
Bromus asper. Hairy Wood-Brome-grass. 
A still larger and coarser-looking grass than the preceding. 
Abundant in woods all over the district. Distinguished by the 
long pendulous spikelets and loose panicles of flowers. Holm-hill 
woods ; Cockshot, near Torpenhow ; Hutton John, etc. 
Bromus sterilis. Barren Brome-grass. 
Not unlike the preceding in appearance ; having similar loose 
drooping panicles, though not reaching more than one-third of the 
size of B. asfer. A worthless species—hardly ever cropped by 
cattle. Of frequent occurrence in loose sandy soils. Aspatria, 
Bullgill, Flimby, etc. 
Bromus mollis. Soft Brome-grass. 
The ‘“Goose-corn” of the Cumberland farmer. Of frequent 
